National Affairs: Coming Out Party

When the United Fruit Liner Pastores docked in Manhattan one day last
week, ship newsmen singled out one passenger to ask one question. The
passenger was Pennsylvania's Governor John S. Fisher. The question:
Would he sign a certain official paper which would release from his
State's Eastern Penitentiary a certain convict? Governor Fisher told
them: "I'll sign it in the routine way when I get around to it." He
went on to Harrisburg, unmindful of the crescendo of public interest
in the release by...